Understanding Kubernetes Persistent Volume II— A Beginner’s Guide

Looking into Life cycle of PV and PVC

routerhan
4 min readSep 24, 2023

Find Complete mind map of A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes

In our previous discussions, we explored the usage of NFS for storage, which required users to set up an NFS system and configure it using YAML files. However, expecting users to master all the supported storage systems in Kubernetes is impractical.

To simplify the process and abstract the underlying storage implementation details, Kubernetes introduces two important resources: Persistent Volumes (PV) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVC).

For the first part of PVC, please check the first part:

This time, we are going to focus on the Lifecycle of PV and PVC, at the end we will have a key takeaways for you!

Check out “Understanding Kubernetes — A Beginner’s Guide” for the comprehensive series🚀

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routerhan

R&D Software Engineer @IBM Germany. This blog is an independent research of cloud computing.